Done lots

Soo, my cellphone camera doesnt work that well in teh dark, so no pictures as of yet, but I will fill them in tomorrow. As of now ive done 40 halberds, 20 greatswords - arms and started to paint and flock the RoB, it looks quite nice, altho on the last tiles ill add in more glue as it didnt stick as good as I was hoping. Nothing that cant be easely fixed so ill prob do that tomorrow. Got some parts from maelstrom, 40k basing git, a new wood and some other bits! So after my Empire army is done ill continiue on my Space Wolf army, need to paint away those lines, it looks horrible up close but good from far away, but i like it to be abit tidy from up close rather then far away.

So here we go, the board is finished alongside som halberds and greatswords(arms/swords finished but out of glue so..)

My Empire army

So, just to show the world(if there are any readers at all besides me) what The Empire project realy is about this is it:

Basicly there's about 20 almost finished and 20 missing their halberds. The rest needs some new paint. I have about: 80 Statetroops with halberds, 40 with sword/shield 30 with spears, 30 handgunners, 20 xbows, 30 Reiksguards, 11 white wolf(no idea where the last one has gone:/) 40 greatswords, 12 teutogen guards,25 Flagellants, 10 pistoliers, 2 cannons, 2 hellstorm, 2 helblaster, 2 mortars and tons of heroes. After(if ever) all these are painted I plan to add a stank and most likely all of the special characters. Im planning on getting my hands on one of the isle of blood griffon and make a Karl Franz model out of that one. Just hoping that those pesky elven legs can be fiddled away from the griffons body without to much work.If everything goes as planned im gonna get atleast 40 done a week. This mainly depends on how much efford it is in repainting the old ones. this week im done almost done with 40 without to much efford. Gonna do a testdrive with it tomorrow against VC, not quite sure what im gonna try out first.

Bored of painting Empire

So I got abit bored about all the 200 statetroops and had a little afair with this Reiksguard statue. I got about 50 knights, dont need half of 'em, so I thought I should put one of them to better use then shelf dusting!

Still got some details left to do, flowers,shields etc. But im quite happy with it as it is right now to be honest.

Realms of battle!

Got a call from our local shop today(Outland) that my realms of battle board had arrived! wuhu! no more green-boring-matt of doom!

Ive also managed to finish 20 halberdier bodies, so ill try and finish the arms and weapons later on. This weekend we are gonna play warhammer and CoC. I'll be bringing my chaos list I think. Cant be arsed to repack the dwarfs. I think i will try out the 9 attack asf jugger/horse riding khorne lord, or 8 asf tz lord. I can see how he can take out a templeguard unit and a slann in 2 rounds with a bit lucky dispelling and a scroll. he has 1+AS and 5 (or 4) Ward save. so he should survive most things or kill the things before they can kill him. Well, off to work and my realms of battle board.

WiP RoB

won the deal! And playing CoC

I won the auction! Now i got about 150 models to paint, and 150 models++ to repaint>_< oh the pain! Im gonna convert all my old empire (black/red) to Altdorf colours. Pictures will be comming when I managed to drag myself to my mate and borrow his camera.

Sunday we played Call of Chthulhu, was a great time! We had 2 "guest" players who realy worked themself into character. Odd played an old sailor from norway that now are a doctor wich looks hideous with a broken eye, and he had a harpoon accident wich was the reason why he had to do something else but be a sailorboy.  Rikard playing a freelance journalist of somesort that reported everything we did back to some weirdo taking pictures instead of shooting down the badguys. Im not gonna retell the entire story but it kinda sums up like this: we find odd in the silver twilight lodge, we go after a missing person, we find him wich leads to another missing person, we find the leader of the silver twilight lodge chanting when we get back calling us fools, Roger then moves in to attack him, Odd missfires and shoots roger in the back, I kill the bad guy and suddenly we find loads of shit and have bought us some tickets to Scottland.

The Empire

So after playing WoC for quite a while and gotten the army painted(missing 2 chosen and some marauders) ive decided to repaint my Empire army. I've managed to loose about 50 statetroops, but I realy want to switch them out with the new ones anyway. The new moddels are realy awesome. I currently won a "bidding" round on a batallion, army deal, wizard, general box and hellblaster for about 100$. Hoping to get it the next week. The seller refused to use secure payment... So I started to wonder if it was all a scam, but since he lives near a friend of mine ive asked if he just could pick it up. Safe and easy! after that I got about 200 statetroops, wich should be enough for my new tourney build army. If im attending 2d6 challenge i hope to bring this army, kinda tired of the WoC atm, played it to death before the tournament, but got rewarded for it tho! Pics will come when I can find a decent camera!

Final Battle! WoC - Watchtower

Atm at the scoreboard we where 5! Players at the exact same amount. 1 player had 16 points more then the 5 of us. I realy wanted to play against his demon army couse all my units could actually kill that bloody 6str6 i10 regen on every wound coused keeper of secrets. Im quite impressed that no one managed to kill it. Ofc its easier said then done. But unless he is in the flank or rear of my units I think both the khorne warriors and marauders could have taken it down rather fairly. And he didn’t have much  magic defence, so actually getting mindrazor off giving me str 8 could go off if I 6 diced timed it. Anyway, I wasn’t lucky enough to get that battle so here goes the last scenario

 

So finals scenario; watch tower 1k VP for having the tower at the end. Many of the competitive players didn’t like to finish of with this random scenario. I love scenarios, and are not realy that competitive considering its my second tournament after almost 10 years of playing warhammer. Anyway I was meeting another warriors of chaos list. Against another friend! The winner of the last years tournament. Our lists are quite different. My list is better then his against someone, while his list against something else. Against each other my list has the edge imo.

 

His list was:

Tz sorc lord lvl4 puppet, ench shield, third eye, amulet 4+ward in 20 Tz warrs

Bsb doom totem

Flying exalted with eye iirc

12 warriors Tz shield

20 warriors Tz shield

20 warriors Tz shield

20 chosens Tz shield champ with favor

Warshrine

Hellcanon

i think that was the numbers he ran, if not, quite close to it. was so many blocks of warriors i cant recall if they where 20 or 15.

Now we did 1 mistake, we didn’t know it was a core unit that had to be in the tower from the start. Nor that the rolloff winner could choose to start there or not. Either way he deployed his chosen with BSB in the tower. Now the only way he couldn’t get a 3+ward on them was to roll 4.. wich he did, the game would have looked quite different if not tbh. He gained +1str. Now we deployed the rest: him: chosen in tower in the middle

From my left to right:

12 warriors         ex                          20warrs lord      20 warrs              warshrine and hellcanon behind.

                                                                              Tower

Hellcanon   knights doggies                   khorne      Tz  trolls               marauders doggies

I got first turn

Khorne warriors charged the tower, knights moved up against his 12 warriors, tz wars trolls and marauders moved up as far as they could. Magic saw me nerfing the chosens ws I and shit with 3. Then I shot down 2-3 tz warriors with a bad scatter roll. My khorne warriors went first. Killing a whooping 12. In the challenge he killed my champ. Then he hit back and killed 6 or so. He managed his break test somehow. Next turn: he moved all he had upwards, his hellcanon shot at my Tz unit, misfired and rolled a 6. Str10 hit killed 3 spot on panic test passed. Not good rolling from his side, but that’s the game! He tried a 6 dice gateway wich I scrolled away. His chosen got 3+ ward from the warshrine.

Turn2

I saw a flaw in his positioning of the tz warriors. If he didn’t move them forward he would get flank charged by my warriors. Khorne warriors charged the tower again and the knights charges his 12 warrior unit. I moved my doggies upfront of his Tz warriors, either making him charge them and no magic for him, and he cant turn around due to the dogs, giving me his flank if he doesn’t charge the dogs, either way its good for me. Lets see if he takes the bait! Marauders move up to flank charge his warshrine, and go for the hellcanon together with my dogs. My troll and tz warriors nudges forward 1 inch so that if he doesn’t move his tz warriors 1 of them can flank charge. Magic: his chosens are again at i2 ws3 and that’s about it. Combat: my exalted challenges and fluffs his 5 attacks.. bah, his exalted actually manages to kill my exalted. Oh well. My other 27 attacks kills about 10 of the remaining 3 chosens. His bsb tries to hold, but rolls badly. And dies. I have the tower! Now my knights kills 5 or so of his tz warriors, none dies in return, he flees  and get run down. His turn: he notice the position of my tz warriors but fail his march move on the 15 block further back so he cant get them up and block the path. He gambles and doesn’t charge the doggies, hoping for a 6 dies gateway on my block. His exalted on disc charges my hellcanon(he should know better!) the rest moves up abit. He brandishes his warshrine flank to my marauders for some reason. Magic: he gets 4 dices iirc so does I channeling 1. He tries a 4 dice gateway I dispel it. Combat: the exalted get crushed by the hellcanon and that’s the end of turn 2. Looking good for me, very good.

Turn3 my Tz warriors flank charges his main unit. He hold. My marauders flank charges his warshrine, doggies charges his hellcanon. My troll charges his 15 warriors. I move my knights into position to help the trolls getting a rear or flank on the 15 warriors. Magic: my Tz warriors gain str 8 I regret on not miasmaing the 15 warrior unit instead, but u cant know that infront of the combat phase anyway. Shooting: skipped. Combat: I went with the marauders first. They ran the shrine down. But didn’t run far enough to get into the rear of the 15 warriors. Missing with 1 inch.. bah. The trolls took 3 wounds and killed 1 in return. Turning tails and fleeing. He rolled a double 1 iirc on the pursue. My tz warriors killed about 10 of his, none died in return. He pigtailed and I followed catching him wich basicly ended the battle. In his round he charged my 10 remaining khorne warriors in the tower. He killed 2 or so, I killed 5 winning, pushing him back out with his rear to the marauders and his flank to my knights. He conseeded then and there. No point in going 3 more turns in me just moving towards the hellcanon and he moving towards me with it. I would have killed it quite easely with my MOK marauders in 2 combat rounds. Big victory to me 20-0! We used about 15min of deployment and about 30-40 min of playtime, so we still had another 1,5+ hour left of the other games. Atm with my score I was at the first place, but looking over at the first table the winning player was wooping the OK player badly, so unless a miracle occurred I was in second or third. The table 2 game was the two DE I lost against. Me and the woc I played against went down to try out warmachine, wich was a great game! It’s a mixture of the best from mordheim and necromunda mixed together with magic. Strongly advicable to try out! We played a small demo game with some crusaders from warmachine against trolls from horde. After that we went up to get the final result..

1.       Demons

2.       DE

3.       WoC

Me and the DE was even at battle points and painting points, but he had 300ish more VP then me.. wich makes me think back to the first game where my knights died to the HE archers in combat… or the 4^th game where my sorc lord and exalted died to soulstealer.. bloody hell >_< to sum up the tournament from my own side. I was very happy with the result, my woc did what it was good at. Although deployment messing scenarios doesn’t belong in a tournament imo, it costed me the game twice against DE. Their movement are way superior to mine, and their fighting abilities aint that far off either. Anyway I had a great time, meeting getting to know new people and meeting old players are always fun! Next year ill probably either use my empire army, massing close to 200 halberds Oo depending on how the comp is, but that is my main plan.